The Washoe Club is one of the most haunted historic locations in “The West” aired on SyFy’s, ‘Ghost Hunters’ and Travel Channel’s, ‘Ghost Adventures’. The building has earned its place among the top haunted locations. View our spooky video with many ghosts!

A giant explosion from a man’s stored dynamite and other volatiles in an old apartment, along with his pet monkey, killed some ten people (back in the late 1800’s), including a family of three and an eight year old girl; even a man on the street passed into the eternal realms as a mishap of timing to this event. The ghost of a drug abusing man whom committed suicide still lingers in dark corners and also the ghost of the beautiful blue lady, called Lena, whom is considered to have possibly died from falling down the spiral staircase or maybe even murdered! The whiny, whom I call Mr. Grumpy Pants, hates people. You hear him on our spirit-box growling at us to, “Leave!”. I picked up his anger and displeasure of our company as we explored the second-level prior to any vocal warning. He sent a spiritual attack on my teenage daughter (dizzy and sick-to-the-stomach) and my son, James, had his energy drained, but the angry spooks didn’t stop there!

I pick up on a negative energy in a room where I felt an invisible “keep out” sign. A woman yells at me, “Mark-keee”, which we heard with our ears. My young teenage children looked in shock, shouting at me, “Dad someone is pulling your pants!” as I talked into the camera lens in the hallway. In part of the video footage you can see something pulling on my trouser leg, although I am blissfully unaware of what was happening at the time. Voices through the spirit box warned us to “Leave” multiple times! I felt like many faces were staring at me as though I was interrupting their treasured poker game.

Then there is the pervert male ghost who touches women. Well we captured his voice as he approached, Michelle, saying “woman” in a perverted voice.

The shrieking spectral cries live on; a crypt and a museum devoted to its deadly past. The crypt area served as an overflow morgue when the ground was too frozen to bury the bodies in winter.
Considered to be one of the best haunted places in Western America, only the daring, brave, and stupid spend the night here. Bar man, Barry Fox, whom I interviewed, told me of two paranormal investigators who fled the crypt area. I assumed they had somehow antagonized the ghostly residents.

Our static-motion detecting specter camera’s audio picked up a “Get Out!” and three thumps (what it sounds like on the stairs). Here people get touched, poked, pulled, and pushed. Names get called here; I recorded my name being called several times in the past. Sometimes shadowy dark masses appear without warning. People have run screaming from this locale. Taunting ghosts here is not advisable.

After doing two separate ghost hunts here, I have not been disappointed. The spirits here are ‘active’ intelligences whom may call your name. They told me the name of their venue twice. I saw plenty of infrared light anomalies on camera here, as seen on TV shows.

I’m even visited by some of its friendly ghosts to this day as recorded in some of my recent ghost box sessions.

Restoration work is in progress. They conduct ghost tours and also overnight ghost hunts as seen in our youtube video.

Thanks to owner, Scott Burrell, and the wonderful staff there. We had a great time (and a few scares).

Here are some helps when doing Ghost or Spirit Box sessions. After dozens of investigations and Ghost Box sessions I lists some help for those new to the Ghost Box. There are different kinds out there. You can even make your own if you are technically savvy. There are some cautions listed too. A spirit boy’s voice laughed through my headphones as I was editing this video. Which caught me by surprise-a live EVP. I hope that means he was giving it a thumbs up. This is a whimsical, halloween themed video. These are from what I found helped me.

Now what is importantly illustrating from this Spirit Box session is that my name (first and last name) was called at least twice. I do not have a common name. They also could see me with some health problems and called on it twice.
I used a control question and asked any spirit to say “Spirit” in which they did. I used a PSB-7 Spirit Box set to FM sweep at 200 ms or milliseconds. I also encased the radio receiver in a faraday radio shielded pouch to minimize broadcast interference which can make listening for REAL responses harder. I assert that this session illustrates that the Spirit Box can be used as a tool for LIVE feedback from those in other realms. But you must experiment with it to get it right. Sometimes responses are not heard clearly and it pays to record your sessions for review playback.

There are all kinds of ghost boxes. They tend to be named after their creator, custom made. They also can cost a pretty penny especially for those made in low quantities. There are also various ghost hunting apps. Some are random word generators. Some in my opinion are total crap and don’t work (even after trying several times.) So buyer beware. Do your research.

I talk about my experiences and captures at Skinwalker Ranch in 2013. I believe I have the closest video captures of any of the anomalies at Skinwalker. One which flew up to me and right past my face. It lit up my face as it went past. The hosts, who also run UFO Hunters Meetup in Las Vegas, talk about the history of Skinwalker Ranch: SHOW HEREThe Paranormal Vault Intro Page

Skinwalker Ranch Apocalypse: Close Encounters Documentary available On Demand through Vimeo:

See youtube video here. Waikumete Cemetery was established in 1886. There are over 70,000 buried here and one of the largest cemeteries in the southern hemisphere. Marc interviews Te Oka Toia from Auckland Ghost Tours about its grim history, and his own paranormal experiences growing up in the area. Marc alone armed with a bagful of paranormal gear, spends a cold night here. One of the most spooky aspects was picking up a child’s and baby’s voice. Someone/thing is captured on static camera steering in Marc’s direction. Part of this graveyard made Marc sick to the stomach during daylight hours.

You may have seen shorter versions of this online, but here is the full-version with other captures and information not previously released. Author/researcher (multiple books on Skinwalker Ranch) Ryan Skinner, who also runs http://skinwalkerranch.org, gives me interesting information about our experience with having a rock thrown at us on UFO Hill. The “halloween pumpkin” ghost-like anomaly footage that was caught on my point-of-view camera, a Sangean and PSB-7 intel ghost box session done in New Zealand, I ask disembodied intelligences what is going on over at Skinwalker Ranch. Some responses include “bigfoot” and “demon”. Not necessarily what I thought from reports. Then again, these intelligences were stealthy and cunning. Robert Bigelow’s science team “N.I.D.S.” found that out. The scientific method doesn’t exactly work on higher intelligences that know what you are doing, don’t like to be recorded, and don’t repeat the same manifestations. Retired army intelligence officer Col. John Alexander who was part of their research team said, “I called it a pre-cognitive sentient intelligence. It certainly seemed to be intelligent and it seemed to know what we were going to do even before we did it.”

Ryan Burns, a local author/researcher gave me some advice about the most active times at the ranch, “It has slowed just a little but on full moons and new moons. It seems to be even more active than before with the cold. Also, if there is a storm taking place it rises in activity in my opinion.” We indeed had encountered storm activity in early July of 2013. With that weather we got very windy conditions that played havoc on my various microphones and shaking the car. Even using fluffy “Softie” mic covers did not work very well in strong wind gusts. Take it or leave it, I was going to film there in good or bad weather. There was a pay-off for my efforts.

For more information on Skinwalker Ranch I recommend reading my earlier posts.

It took three years, two countries, balls of element 113 and Batman vision to complete this piece! Full version in the works…

Did I capture what Robert Bigelow’s N.I.D.S. scientific team could not on camera (at least anything revealed to the public)? As someone who had been in a home that had poltergeist activity (my family fled) in New Zealand in the 1980’s in which others witnessed occurrences. Having also had a daytime close encounter with a metallic oblong shaped craft along with two strange beings in early 2013, in the Southern Nevada desert. I’m known as the “Haunted Man”, who puts a lot of thought and work into my videos had been part of and associated with paranormal teams in Las Vegas. I was immediately interested in the Skinwalker Ranch story on hearing it through an old radio broadcast. I had to go. Limited on funds I waited for the right time to make the long road trip to North Eastern Utah. I took with me an array of night vision gear and other devices that I had used for ghost hunting.

I produced this the second of two documentaries on this area of high strangeness. The first was mostly an exclusive interview with local Ute spiritual man, Larry Cesspooch who recounts the goings on in the region, and what has happened to some of the Ute tribal members. I was to discover that this place lives up to its name. A possible frightening Bigfoot encounter, EVP’s, ghost box responses and strange anomalies (caught on I.R. camera.) Hold onto your shaking seat! Meet some of the locals in the Utinah basin during the night observations. Shot with storms on the horizon and blustery wind conditions.

One interesting piece of electronic voice phenomenon that got captured up there on UFO Hill said “Countdown to being poor.” Was this some kind of premonition E.V.P.?

In months after going to Skinwalker Ranch. I ended up with a con man (pro squatter) roommate who replaced a former roommate who had jumped the apartment lease that stole our food, refused to pay rent, and did drugs (in denial) in our place when we just had baby Karina. The police refused to do anything. Yes, shame on me for not doing a background check on him. I continued to have relationship issues. Ironically we ending up having to move into Bigelow’s Budget Suites in Las Vegas. Though looking over the back wall there were homeless people living in cardboard boxes next to the railway line. I should be grateful in comparison. Things became even worse when I realized after moving to New Zealand that there were too many people seeking employment within the creative industry. Despite have oodles of years of experience. I could not get employment in my field. Some positions had some 600+ applicants. The career prospects were dim with so many applicants. Perhaps too because a lot of firms did not want to employ someone with senior experience when they could get some with a few years under their belt for cheaper.

The job aspect was only one part of the drama. I was to encounter. Family fights and marital problems rocked my world. I had not lived in my home country for nearly two decades. Nearly a year after returning to my homeland I found myself still unemployed and in terrible mental despair. We resorted to turning to the Salvation Army to help us with food etc. The high demand for housing in Auckland meant that everything was very expensive. When you live on an island even groceries are around double or so compared to the U.S.A. (depending on the item.) We ended up in a boarding house. I was financially consumed and devastated. We burned through our savings. Had gotten a little help when we arrived from family members. I could have picked up a bum job (as I had done in the past) but it in no way would cover the high cost of rent. Houses were averaging around a million dollars in Auckland. It was sounding like another California though an island. There had been mass immigration to New Zealand in recent years. There were a lot more people than jobs. I found myself sinking deeper into depression and a failure as a husband and father. I had gone to the doctor several times and started counselor sessions to help deal with the various issues.

It seems that that e.v.p. was a forewarning! We became poor and desperate. I found myself fuming inside unable to sleep trying to figure out what to do next. We all slept in the tiny shoebox of a living room (two babies and two adults.) We were back in the beauty of God’s zone, New Zealand but unable to enjoy the surroundings due to need to survive and grow in a financial sense. Come to discover a tenant upstairs above us had gotten busted for running a meth lab. Family members stopped calling, much to do with conflicts with my wife. I wondered if some how I had gotten some kind of curse from Skinwalker.

Larry Cesspooch after hearing some of my troubles kindly prayed for us during the sweat ceremony recently. There are real dangers associated with paranormal investigating ( Dangers of Paranormal Investigating ,) some overt and others covert. You can see in my Jubilee Mine youtube video where a man we were with was nearly pushed to his death on an elevated mine platform. You can even hear the taunting voices bad and good luring him up a ladder (go to my youtube links section on the top of this page or Haunted Man Youtube link )

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I post the podcast from last Sunday night (USA) in an interview with Dino Ewelt for those that missed‎. I discuss with Dino, Skinwalker Ranch, Fort Duchesne mass saucer sighting on Feb. 12, 2012, UFOs including my own close encounter in Nelson, Nevada, my own poltergeist family escape as a young teen, ghostbox, shadow people, ghosts and near-death experiences. I don’t have a great voice for radio with the errs and ums. Bit rusty. Thanks to Dino for inviting me to speak on his show.Interview with Dino on youtube

Skinwalker Ranch, a place of high strangeness. I have gained an obsession with the story behind this mysterious zone of crossing worlds. Reporter, George Knapp, and Dr. Colm Kelleher (also N.I.D.S. or National Institute for Discovery Science team leader), co-authored a book, ‘Hunt For The Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah‘ about the infamous Skinwalker Ranch in Northeastern, Utah. In 1994 cattle rancher, Terry Sherman, purchased this beautiful 480 acre piece of land; the property had been vacant for several years. Previous owners had died and owned it from the 1930’s. The house had unusual security measures installed. Immediately after moving in, the Shermans’ noticed bizarre animals and strange phenomena, including a giant wolf-like creature that attacked a calf on their first day there. It was then shot several times only meandering off unhurt into the wilderness and disappearing. Its heavy tracks vanished.

“For a long time we wondered what we were seeing, if it was something to do with a top-secret project”, said Terry Sherman, who reluctantly agreed to speak publicly about the activity for the first time. “I don’t know really what to think about it.” —Original Deseret News Article (1996). They experienced poltergeist activity, shadow people, various UFOs, strange and exotic animals, portals opened with things coming through them, bigfoots, cattle mutilations, cattle disappearing without trace, mini-stealth fighters, and strange beams of light, etc. Some of the neighbors had reported similar things. The Unitah basin has been a place of many UFO sightings over the decades. The rancher’s bizarre cattle deaths were often accompanied by a strong, strange, musk-like odor.

Joe “Junior” Hicks, a local trusted retired science teacher, had compiled some 400 reports over the years. He had sightings himself and the whole school had sightings of UFOs in broad daylight too. He said, “The UFO activity really started getting intense in the early 50’s… In the 60’s and 70’s we probably had more UFO sightings than any other place in the world.”—Las Vegas Mercury, George Knapp.
“I’d estimate over 10% of the population of the Uintah Basin has seen something”, Hicks said. “I think what’s happening is we are being visited from beings from another world or some other place. I think primarily it’s research and exploration.”

The local Ute tribe avoid the ranch area. Being cursed land, some of them had been chased by fireball-like objects. Navajos and Utes in the distant past cursed each other. Navajo apparently sent a “skinwalker” to the area, which is some kind of shape-shifting, evil witch that has super-natural powers.

The Sherman family had lost some 14 expensive high-end cattle; it destroyed them financially and emotionally. There was also a “predator” like being that tormented them, including a never to return visitor they had over. The being ran up to the visitor and roared so loud that it could be heard for miles. In fear he grabbed rancher, Terry, and didn’t want to let go; “never to return.”

The intelligent entities at the ranch had a mischievous demeanor. They would make items, some very heavy, disappear and reappear in unusual places like up in a tree. On an April afternoon, on a quick trip to town passing their bulls in the coral, Terry mentions to his wife in regard to their losses if they lost their four prized bulls that they would be in trouble. Upon returning shortly after their trip, to their shock, find their bulls gone. A frantic search began, finding them nowhere. He resorts to looking inside a trailer with one door secured with thick wire in place. Inside were his four bulls, jammed in there like sardines, in some sort of trance-like state. Cobwebs on the inside of the doorway were undisturbed. It would have been very hard to get one in there, but all four? “There is simply no way that anyone could coax those four bulls into that trailer”, says Colm Kelleher, a microbiologist who was part of the N.I.D.S. team who later studied events such as the cattle mutilations on the ranch.

Six of the family’s cats vanished in one night. All of the family had witnessed UFOs there. The first one spotted even resembled a broken down r.v. by their third homestead. When they approached it to offer assistance, it started silently drifting up into the sky, obviously not an r.v. There were flying blue balls about the size of a baseball that looked like they were made of glass with two bubbling, luminescent fluids that were intermingling inside. These would fly around their animals and would retreat if approached.

The last straw occurred one evening in May of 1996 when Terry ordered his three farm dogs to chase one of the blue glass-like flying balls. They snapped at it, but the ball was able to move out of the way. They chased the orb UFO beyond Terry’s view where he heard three startling yelps and then dead silence. No further response from them. Searching in morning for his dogs, he discovered three round spots of dried, brittle vegetation. In the middle was a black, greasy lump. Terry surmised those were the remains of his dogs and never saw them again.

The Shermans spent their last day on the ranch rounding up cattle. By late evening they were “bone-tired”. They locked all the doors and saw their children to bed. Gwen and Terry took hot showers and then fell into a deep sleep. The next morning they awoke to find their bedding covered with blood. They each had a one- eighth inch deep “scoop mark” in the same place on their right thumbs. The ranch from hell had managed to terrorize them one last time.

Terry did not want to pass their problem ranch onto someone else. He thought maybe the military were trying to scare him off of the land. Thinking publishing his story in Utah’s Deseret News would make them back-off, he went to the press. Soon after billionaire entrepreneur, Robert Bigelow, got wind of the story, he bought the property off of the Shermans with a non-disclosure agreement. Bigelow owns the Budget Suites chain. He gathers reports on UFOs and owns an aerospace company that has contracts with NASA.
Bigelow assembled his own scientific investigation team of experts known as N.I.D.S.(National Institute for Discovery Science). The team, including former military personnel, was to have experts in the fields of engineering, physics, non-lethal military weapons, sociology, veterinary science, molecular biology, etc.

The team witnessed some of the strange events that the Shermans experienced. The intelligence/s always seems to be one-step ahead of the researchers. Nothing was repeatable for science sake. Some of them had been terrorized by what they saw. Activity diminished and N.I.D.S. was disbanded in 2004.

The property today remains under guard by ex-military personnel and security cameras. There are plenty of “No Trespassing” signs to announce that. Could/Would the phenomena here be dangerous to humans?

Our Two Night Investigation In Early July Of 2013

UFO Hill semi-legal viewing location. This is Ute land. This is where we had a rock thrown at us from the darkness. Saturday night.

Location we observed from on Friday night.

Below: a series of video still frames (scroll down to see movement) illustrating an anomaly that approaches me and turns in front my face as if to check me out!

Above: (screen shots) light anomaly approached me as if to check me out. My head is on the right-hand side. Flight path unaffected by the strong gusty winds (that shook my parked car.) It also is self-illuminated (evident by light reflections in distance.) Captured with a Contour full-spectrum HD point-of-view camera. These anomalies appeared very quickly and disappeared again. What I call “sprites” zoomed up to me as if to check me out and then disappeared again. Some of which I saw even lit up my face as they went past. The above frames were shot at the Southern Vantage point.

This in part is a follow-up story from my original interview with local Ute shaman, Larry Cesspooch, who recounted his paranormal experiences growing up around the Skinwalker Ranch region. I am in the works of compiling the second documentary account of the night investigations of what occurred and was captured on my devices. Some evidence was visual, but much was on audio and then, of course, the rock being hurled at us on UFO Hill. Some voices were calling my name. Some cried for help. A “To us” e.v.p. When I asked what was going on at Skinwalker Ranch on my radio shielded PSB7 spirit box I got a ,”hell”, response. What was eerie during a ghost box session in the car at the end of the night was an elongated sound like a woman screaming. We also got knocks on the window which frightened, girlfriend and now wife, Michelle. These device captures are in the process of being compiled for the final investigation review documentary.

Did a sasquatch pay us a visit?!

You can’t see the ranch from UFO Hill (known as by locals), but you can see the sky directly above it. The funny thing is I was hoping to capture something UFO related. We had a brief visit from law enforcement who was checking my car out in a remote place. Shortly afterward one of my mics picks up a growl/groan, what I thought then was an explosion right by us at the time. I figured that maybe a battery pack had exploded or maybe something related to a small utility pole near us. After reviewing the audio from this, something more shocking is apparent. A heavy rock is thrown at us from the darkness; you can hear it hitting the stony ground where we were. Now the drop below us went down about 50 or so feet and was steep. If one of us had been hit by this projectile we could have been killed or seriously hurt. Possibly a person could have done it, though creeping around in the rocky darkness there without a light source would have been risky.

Strange animal sounds are recorded. I am just not an expert on local wildlife up there. Perhaps the wildlife sounds are some known creature. Best heard through headphones, it sounds like the wookie off Star Wars (sort of funny). I have listened to animal sounds from different wildlife, though not identified with those sounds. I had tried 2 or 3 Bigfoot experts to get their opinion, though I got no response.

Local Ute whom I interviewed on camera earlier, Larry Cesspooch, did review the above footage and commented, “I checked out the footage, didn’t hear anything out of the usual, but I do have a friend who has BIG FOOT prints he cast in plaster paris near their home. He showed me a couple weeks ago. Again, we hear those sounds every night, it could be something, but we’re so used to hearing it, don’t mean nothing.”

Larry went on to mention that a possibility for the rock being thrown was spirits trying to get our attention. Close by is Dead Man’s Curve where Larry says some twenty people he knew of died in accidents and mentions probably more.

Larry’s original interview with me

Below: halloween pumpkin anomaly (scroll down to see video frames for movement)-what I refer to. Unknown light. Fades in and out very quickly (capture: South Vantage.)

This is where we stayed and visited the haunted trailer where both staff and guests have had experiences.

Area 51 security observing us from nearby

Area 51, United States Air Force facility, a famous not so secret base known also as Homey Airport and Groom Lake. Subject of dreams or nightmares or neither? Highly guarded without a wall or fence around its perimeter. Though patrolled regularly and watched with sophisticated intruder detection, video and listening devices. Known for its testing of spy aircraft such as the U-2, A-12, SR-71 and Stealth technology. I take a trip to the dusty, bumpy Groom Lake Road leading to Area 51. Where I pull over and fly my quadcopter in restricted military airspace. I believe I am the first to do this as when I revisited after, I noticed their patrols extended beyond the base confines and there were more guard (cammo dude) patrols.

I take it as high as I can visually before it becomes a dot (orientation becomes difficult even with a bright LEDs). You will notice on video that it’s windy even on the ground and higher up worse! These were very perilous flying conditions and then the thought of radar picking up my drone and investigating us. We then go to the legal border surrounding Area 51 where security personnel actively perch in their positions ready to pounce as a warning to anyone that dares cross the line. Our mile long dust cloud we create is a dead giveaway. Also in my video you will see something to watch out for that could be very hazardous to your well being driving in that region and I’m not just talking about rattlesnakes in season. Holy cow what could I be talking about?

Rachel, Nevada is a tiny town in the arid wasteland of the Southern Nevada. It has a population of 54 as determined by the 2010 census. You best have a near full petrol tank when coming out here. We park and stay at the Little A’Le’Inn. We have joined Las Vegas UFO Hunters in this region a couple of times. Staff and guests report of sounds and disturbances in Trailer unit #2. Kindly one of the staff allows my family and I to run a ghost box session in here before the booked guests arrive. Even the TAPs road crew had an experience here. Apparently too recorded on camera.

We do a skywatch, E.V.P. and PSB7 shielded ghost box session under a cold, starry, stunning night. We were parked close to the highway in utter darkness with no one living around us. Sexuality and spirits. Well you don’t hear about this much. But you will find that not every need dies with the body. I advise listening with headphones to hear what the spooks have to say. Perhaps this is something extra to send chills down your spine. So now I hope I wet your digital appetite to see the video itself. This footage is real and not doctored in any way. No company tells me what I can or can’t put into my shows. There is plenty of fiction out there but that stops with me. The ghosts of Rachel are calling you!!! Don’t turn back now…